[d3v0 lifeblog]

--I've talked to you about my plan B. Yes you on my sidebar, you at the pub.

I'm going to be in a position in the next year to start serious work on my plan B to get out of society as I know it. I have some money RIGHT NOW but I need to do some research, I need to pick my grandmothers brain while she is still around.

Our society with its Mochaccinos and XBOX 360s isn't going to work out. Bio-diesel isn't the answer exactly because it puts up the global price of food contributing to global starving. Net return on energy from oil is starting to get silly.

If your remember me ranting about this stuff my plan B is this:- find some people- buy some land together- drill a well on it, if necessary- buy some insulated shipping containers- read a bunch of books on farming- assemble a mighty pile of hand tools- plant fruit and nut trees

At the same time personally I need to refocus things on developing my personal revenue streams in a way that let me be in the country some of the time. This is difficult, but solvable in my profession.

--At last, after much frustration I have found a shoe store in Wellington that sells funky shoes for men that are not marketed at black people. The shoe store has some of those but it also has delicious mens shoes like these :)

--I've watched a bunch of TV in the last little while. I've been sick enough not to be able to read, except for today, and too tired for computer games.

I've snacked on television bits of the last few evenings. It really is a wasteland. Maybe it gets better later in the week, but shouldn't one of the channels have something watchable at primetime on a Monday night?

The news was the biggest disappointment. TV one was showing bits of lonely girl 15 from youtube one the news. Gah!! That is stale internet my friends, quite stale.

I don't know if I could go back to watching TV now even if I wanted to. The spell is broken, the wizards wands have run out of fizz.

At home again today, waiting for my dizzyness to pass. Read my first Cory Doctorow novel, which I legally downloaded from his site and printed.

It was pretty good, talking about a future human society where a culture called the Bitchun predominates. Was cool, with a nice little twist at the end. It was another go at explaining a technology integrated post money society.

The book is a bit like Billys unpublished-first-book-that-he-doesn't-seem-interested-in-publishing-quite-yet but not as good.

However I don't feel that anyone has done a good job yet of fiction that shows how it is that we might get past greed related personal ownership.